Click Here to Read: “We Have To Bring Down the Number of Cases Now. Otherwise We Won’t Be Able To Handle It”: Virologist Christian Drosten is guiding Germany through the current pandemic. He spoke to Zeit Online about the length of the crisis – and how it will change our lives. Interviewed by Florian Schumann on the Zeit website on March 21. 2020.
Click Here to Read: China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why “It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s Covid-19 response By Julia Belluz on the Vox website on March 3, 2020.
2019-nCoV in Greater China by number of cases. Image: 董辰兴 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to View: Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready Ted Talk from March 2015.
In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, “There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.”
